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Hey everyone. Welcome back to another episode of Justice Pending. I'm Claire.

And I'm Susan. And today we're stepping into a storm of speculation, social media sleuthing, and something darker.

13 deaths in just a few months across the great states of New England.

So since March 2025, bodies,

mostly women, have been turning up in woods, rivers, and remote areas across Massachusetts,

Connecticut, Rhode Island, and even Maine. The deaths are unexplained. The causes vary, but the internet has a theory.

That's right. The internet believes it to be a serial killer and maybe more than one.

The police are saying no, but the public isn't buying it. And the fear, the fear is very real.

So let's talk about what we know.

13 bodies in less than four months have been discovered, and that is just not normal.

Definitely not normal in this amount of time, in this region, and not with so many cases without answers.

So the first known victim was a 35-year-old named Paige Bannon.

Her body was pulled from Connecticut's Norwalk River on March 6th.

On that same day, a human skull was discovered in the woods of Plymouth, Massachusetts.

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